Commodities, including flour, rice and dried pulses, have increased from 7 per cent to 30 per cent. Meanwhile, the soaring prices of edible oil (15 per cent), sugar (27 per cent) and frozen meat (17 per cent) have resulted in the increase of price of meals. At the beginning of this year, electricity tariff and cost of transportation was increased.
Association consommateur de l‘île Maurice (ACIM), qualified the situation as unprecedented, while decrying the inaction of the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Pravind Jugnauth. Hence Jayen Chellum, secretary general of the ACIM, wants to meet Jugnauth to try to find solutions to protect the public against escalating prices. At the Institute for Consumer Protection (ICP), it is estimated that consumers are currently in a whirlwind and that further increases are expected.